Author: Graham Banks
Date: 03:32:11 06/19/05
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On June 19, 2005 at 05:11:40, Madhavan wrote: >On June 19, 2005 at 01:35:16, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On June 19, 2005 at 00:25:30, Madhavan wrote: >> >>>On June 18, 2005 at 19:01:37, Graham Banks wrote: >>> >>>>On June 18, 2005 at 18:14:46, Marc D wrote: >>>> >>>>>On June 18, 2005 at 18:11:34, Graham Banks wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On June 18, 2005 at 17:57:07, Marc D wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Fruit 2.1 - CM10k Lucifuge >>>>>>> >>>>>>> CM10k Fruit >>>>>>>1 CM 10k Lucifuge 3,5/6 · ·· ·· =01110 >>>>>>>2 Fruit 2.1 2,5/6 =10001 · ·· ·· >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>6 games of 20 played >>>>>>>Level: 40/10 >>>>>> >>>>>>Are you prepared to post your Lucifuge settings? Perhaps I'll put them into the >>>>>>CM10th Showdown if you wish! >>>>>> >>>>>>Graham. >>>>> >>>>>If it turns out to be any good i will do that. >>>>>But first i have to do a bit of testing to make it safe :-) >>>>> >>>>>Marc >>>> >>>> >>>>In hindsight, probably best to leave it as editing the tournament round by round >>>>has been very time consuming and I can't face doing it all again! >>>>When the tournament's finished, there might be a few settings including yours >>>>that I could try out against the field. >>>> >>>>Regards, Graham. >>> >>>I'd like to create my own chessmaster personality,can you give tips of which to >>>change [increase,decrease]since there are so many parameters,can you post some >>>setting showing the difference between the default chessmaster personality and >>>user's top chessmaster personality >>> >>>thanks. >> >>Hi Madhavan, >> >>If you look in the thread just below, I've posted all the CM10th settings >>currently in my tournament. Here are the default settings so that you can >>compare. >> >> >>[ENGINE] >>Name=CM10th Default >> >>opp=100 opn=100 opb=100 opr=100 opq=100 myp=100 myn=100 myb=100 myr=100 myq=100 >>cc=100 mob=100 ks=100 pp=100 pw=100 cfd=0 sop=100 avd=0 rnd=0 sel=10 md=99 >> >>My ideas are not necessarily the best, but here we go if you're interested! >> >>Material values don't need drastic altering, but mine reflect my belief that in >>computer chess, the queens in particular should be valued more highly than >>usual. I've valued the queen at 10.7 (pawns at 1.1) >>Also as a piece is in most case more valuable than three pawns, I value pawmns >>at 1.1 and minor pieces at 3.4 >>In computer chess I also believe that in most cases a rook is worth slightly >>more than minor piece and two pawns, thus my rook value of 5.8 >> >>Positional values >>CM10th gave me the initial impression of being very good at flank play, but >>control of the centre wasn't valued highly enough. I'd increase both own and >>opponent's control of the centre, but my how much? Probably to 110 or so. >>CM10th is quite active, so own mobility shouldn't be increased too much if at >>all. The opponent's mobility should be increased slightly to restrict his >>activity, probably to about 110. >>CM10th's king safety is vastly improved compared to CM9000, so doesn't need to >>be increased as drastically. Probably 120-140 range. As a competent attacker and >>because too much emphasis on king attack could detract from other areas of play >>I'd have opponents king safety somewhere between 100-125. >>Passed pawns are an area of real intrigue. CM10th doesn't handle the opponents >>passed pawns as well as it should and sometimes doesn't even handle its own >>passed pawns well! Therefore I wouldn't place too much extra importance on its >>own passed pawns (100-110), but motre importance on the opponents (120-150) >>Pawn weakness isn't too bad and doesn't need too much adjusting, probably >>between 105-120 for both. >> >>Best selectivity seems to be 14. >> >>I wouldn't tinker with the material/positional weighting. >> >>Some prefer to set the attack/defence setting to a small negative value. This >>encourages the swapping off of material as opposed to keeping it on the board. >>It has nothing to do with aggressive/passive play. > > >Thanks a lot,Graham. >I will try to create a different new chessmaster 9000 personalities[I dont have >chessmaster 10000,sorry] > >thanks for posting the settings in another thread. > >I plan to create 10-20 different settings plus the default one,put all in a >tournament and I will do the same test against different engines. > >It sure must be a huge testing amount,I will report the settings if i find >something great about its play. > >is blitz 3 good for testing chessmaster personality?I hate long time controls >because I have got many other games to play :) > >Did you notice different style of play in all those user created chessmaster >personality?did they perform well,better than the default one? > >I usually run testing when i'm away. > >thanks > > I'll email you all the CM9000 settings I have plus the logos if the email address in your profile is correct. You'd best ignore the CM10th stuff I just posted as it doesn't apply to CM9000. Test at the time control that best suits you. I've never been a fan of blitz. You'd be better off going for 40 moves in 10 minutes rather than "time in ..." Graham. >>Hope this helps, >>Graham.
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